Leak, Public Officials Involved Panama Papers Requested Backward

Program Manager International NGO for Indonesian Development (INFID) Khoirun Nikmah urged public officials involved in the scandal of Panama Papers resigned. Therefore, as a public official should give a good example for society by paying taxes to the country's development.

"It should mimic the Icelandic Prime Minister Sigmundur Gunnlaugsson who resigned from his post as community urgently,"

he said in a press conference titled Indonesia Emergency Mafia Taxation, in Kebayoran Baru, Jakarta, on Sunday, April 10, 2016. As is known, some public officials such as Airlangga Hartanto, Johnny Gerard Plate, and others listed in the alleged tax evasion practices by building companies in the state of tax havens that provide facilities for tax evasion.

"Of course the government needs to investigate further against the Panamanian document and publish their names," he said.

Khoirun said that with the tax evasion, Indonesia lost about Rp 200 trillion annually. Khoirun said the high rate due to the low performance of the tax authorities in Indonesia. "In addition to low tax compliance of the rich and corporations also be indicative of the potential loss of the tax," he said. Khoirun said Panama Papers scandal shows poor financial system and global economy. Khoirun said, Indonesia needs to spearhead changes in global financial governance related taxation system, confidentiality of data termination regime of taxation and banking.

"President Jokowi can use the G20 or other international forum for urgent agenda-agensa it," he said.

Hundreds of companies listed by name in a financial document leak incredible scale, and involves both former heads of state and incumbent as well as politicians and businessmen of the world, including Indonesia. The company was established in a tax-free jurisdiction, which allegedly aims to avoid the payment of taxes to the state. The Panama Papers call 899 people and companies in Indonesia which has a shell company in several areas of tax haven. Of that total, 803 shareholders in the form of names, 10 companies, 28 companies were created, and 58 names related parties.

They all assembled with various companies darker deliberately established in the areas of tax-free haven (tax havens). This document is known to have come from a small law firm, but very influential in Panama named Mossack Fonseca. The firm has offices in Hong Kong, Zurich, Miami, and 35 other cities around the world. This data includes emails, tables finance, passport and notes the establishment of the company, who revealed the secret identity of the owners of bank accounts and companies in 21 territories / jurisdiction offshore, ranging from Nevada, Singapore until the British Virgin Islands